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...players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals unheeded. If the right tackle sees the "3 hole" is clogged, he may cry "Up two," and play "43" becomes "45." If the defense shifts heavily to the "play" side, he may shout "Cancel," whereupon the quarterback calls "Opposite," and the play hammers at the other side of the line. Obviously, Notre Dame tackles need to be quick-witted as well...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...
...month before the election, Vargas suddenly installed his unpopular brother, Benjamin Vargas, as police chief. Dutra and Góes Monteiro decided that Vargas was preparing to cancel the elections. They staged a coup of their own which abruptly ended Vargas' 15-year rule. Chief Justice José Linhares became acting President until the election, which Dutra won by just over a million votes...
...subtle and much-used trick is to neutralize an unpleasant odor. How this works is uncertain, but odor engineers have found many "odor pairs," i.e., smells that cancel each other. The smell of cedarwood, for instance, cancels the smell of rubber. Many offensive-smelling commodities are marketed at present with their natural odors neutralized by an odor antagonist...
...Vichy French in 1941. Though Zaim was a veteran of many losing causes, he rose steadily, first to chief of Syria's police, and finally to army chief of staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup, he said...